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7626193 |
Apparatus comprising a single photon photodetector having reduced afterpulsing and method therefor
A single-photon detector is disclosed that provides reduced afterpulsing without some of the disadvantages for doing so in the prior art. An embodiment of the present invention provides a stimulus...
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7622782 |
Pressure sensors and methods of making the same
A pressure sensor includes a base substrate silicon fusion bonded to a cap substrate with a chamber disposed between the base substrate and the cap substrate. Each of the base substrate and the cap...
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7615771 |
Memory array having memory cells formed from metallic material
Solid-state memories are disclosed that are comprised of cross-point memory arrays. The cross-point memory arrays include a first plurality of electrically conductive lines and a second plurality...
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7608849 |
Non-volatile switching element, method for manufacturing the same, and integrated circuit having non-volatile switching elements
The present invention provides a non-volatile switching element having a novel structure that operates at a high speed and enables high integration, and an integrated circuit that includes such...
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7569904 |
Semiconductor device having a plurality of temperature sensors and semiconductor device control method using the plurality of temperature sensors
A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of banks, a plurality of control circuits, and a plurality of temperature sensors, wherein each of the plurality of temperature sensors is disposed near...
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7569763 |
Solid state energy converter
A solid-state energy converter with a semiconductor or semiconductor-metal implementation is provided for conversion of thermal energy to electric energy, or electric energy to refrigeration. In...
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7547953 |
Porous gallium oxide films and methods for making and patterning the same
Gallium oxide films for sensing gas comprise Ga 2 O 3 and have a porosity of at least about 30%. Such films can be formed by coating a substrate with a solution comprising: a gallium salt and a...
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7544940 |
Semiconductor device including vanadium oxide sensor element with restricted current density
In a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, and at least one sensor element made of vanadium oxide formed over the semiconductor substrate, the sensor element is designed so that...
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7535020 |
Systems and methods for thermal sensing
Systems and methods for positioning thermal sensors within an integrated circuit in a manner that provides useful thermal measurements corresponding to different parts of the integrated circuit. In...
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7510323 |
Multi-layered thermal sensor for integrated circuits and other layered structures
A compact resistive thermal sensor is provided for an integrated circuit (IC), wherein different sensor components are placed on different layers of the IC. This allows the lateral area needed for...
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7504658 |
Sensor elements with cantilevered bar structures made of semiconductors based on group III-nitride
The present invention relates to a sensor element which has a semiconductor structure based on a Group III-nitride. The semiconductor sensor element serves for determining the pressure, the...
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7471184 |
Robust MEMS actuator for relays
An apparatus comprising a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device. The MEMS device includes a substrate having an anchoring pad thereon and a structural element. The structural element has a...
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7462921 |
Integrated circuit device, method of manufacturing the same and method of forming vanadium oxide film
A vanadium oxide film is formed on an interlayer insulating layer, and a silicon oxide film and a silicon nitride film are formed on the vanadium oxide film in this order. With a resist pattern...
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7439601 |
Linear integrated circuit temperature sensor apparatus with adjustable gain and offset
Embodiments of the invention include a temperature sensor apparatus, method and system for providing an output voltage response that is linear to the temperature of the integrated circuit to which...
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7432123 |
Methods of manufacturing high temperature thermistors
A method of manufacturing high temperature thermistors. A polycrystalline thermistor body is formed from a material selected from a list consisting of bulk polycrystalline Si with intrinsic...
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7430039 |
Sensor
Sensors are provided which enable detection with a high sensitivity in microchemistry and biochemical analysis by using devices integrated into a compact configuration and can be freely disposed on...
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7416351 |
Optical subassembly installing thermistor therein
The present invention is to provide an optical subassembly with a co-axial package that enables to sense the temperature of the devices mounted within the subassembly with a relatively inexpensive...
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7405457 |
High temperature thermistors
A high temperature NTC thermistor includes a polycrystalline thermistor body, selected from a list consisting of polycrystalline Si with intrinsic conductivity and polycrystalline Ge with intrinsic...
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7393711 |
Method of producing a digital fingerprint sensor and the corresponding sensor
An embodiment of the present invention related to fingerprint sensors is described. The sensor comprises an integrated-circuit chip having a sensitive surface, a substrate provided with electrical...
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7391092 |
Integrated circuit including a temperature monitor element and thermal conducting layer
In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a sheet-like temperature monitor member of vanadium oxide is provided, whose one end is connected to one via while the other end is connected to...
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7368784 |
Thermal protection device for an integrated power MOS
A thermal protection device is for an integrated power MOSFET transistor including an interdigitated array of source regions and drain regions defined in a well region of the monocrystalline...
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7351996 |
Method of increasing efficiency of thermotunnel devices
The present invention comprises a tunneling device in which the collector electrode is modified so that tunneling of higher energy electrons from the emitter electrode to the collector electrode is...
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7332358 |
MOSFET temperature sensing
A MOSFET has its gate voltage controlled to provide a constant drain current of the MOSFET, for example to limit inrush current for charging a capacitance of a power supply arrangement. A decrease...
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7321157 |
CoSb3-based thermoelectric device fabrication method
A method of fabricating a CoSb 3 -based thermoelectric device is disclosed. The method includes providing a high-temperature electrode, providing a buffer layer on the high-temperature electrode,...
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7307328 |
Semiconductor device with temperature sensor
A semiconductor device is disclosed. In one embodiment the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body of which is integrated a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature prevailing in...
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7307325 |
High temperature interconnects for high temperature transducers
A silicon wafer is fabricated utilizing two or more semiconductor wafers. The wafers are processed using conventional wafer processing techniques and the wafer contains a plurality of output...
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7306967 |
Method of forming high temperature thermistors
A method of manufacturing high temperature thermistors from an ingot. The high temperature thermistors can be comprised of germanium or silicon. The high temperature thermistors have at least one...
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7294899 |
Nanowire Filament
A method of manufacturing a nanowire filament includes forming and fusing actions. In a forming action, close proximity conductors are formed. In another forming action, a junction oxide is formed...
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7282384 |
Thermoelectric transducing material thin film, sensor device, and its manufacturing method
The present invention provides an SiGe-based thin film, a method for manufacturing this thin film, and applications of this thin film. The present invention relates to a method for producing, by...
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7239002 |
Integrated circuit device
In a temperature sensor section of a semiconductor integrated circuit device, first vias of tungsten are formed at the topmost layer of a multi-layer wiring layer and pads of titanium are provided...
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7233000 |
Low power silicon thermal sensors and microfluidic devices based on the use of porous sealed air cavity technology or microchannel technology
This invention provides a miniaturized silicon thermal flow sensor with improved characteristics, based on the use of two series of integrated thermocouples ( 6, 7 ) on each side of a heater ( 4 ),...
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7229694 |
Micromechanical component and method for producing an anti-adhesive layer on a micromechanical component
A micromechanical component includes an anti-adhesive layer, formed from at least one fluorine-containing silane, applied to at least parts of its surface for reducing surface forces. To increase...
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RE39640 |
Conductive isostructural compounds
A family of isostructural compounds have been prepared having the general formula A n Pb m Bi n O 2n+m . These compounds possess a NaCl lattice type structure as well as low thermal conductivity...
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7193290 |
Semiconductor component and a method for producing the same
A semiconductor component, such as a humidity sensor, which has a semiconductor substrate, such as, for example, made of silicon, a first electrode and a second electrode and at least one first...
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7187053 |
Thermal sensing method and system
The present invention provides an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has a plurality of chip areas. The integrated circuit also has a plurality of temperature sensors, at least one per chip...
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7176804 |
Protection of power semiconductor components
A method and a system for protecting the power semiconductor components used in the powerstages of power electronics devices, such as frequency converters, wherein calculation modeling the degree...
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7176508 |
Temperature sensor for high power very large scale integration circuits
Disclosed is a temperature sensor for an integrated circuit having at least one field effect transistor (FET) having a polysilicon gate, in which a current and a voltage is supplied to the...
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7166900 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device comprises a temperature dependent voltage source for outputting a voltage at its output in dependence on a temperature measured in the semiconductor memory device. At...
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7166796 |
Method for producing a device for direct thermoelectric energy conversion
In devices used for the direct conversion of heat into electricity, or vice versa, known in the art as thermoelectric power generators, thermoelectric refrigerators and thermoelectric heat pumps,...
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7157801 |
Device and a method for thermal sensing
A device for thermal sensing is disclosed based on one thermopile. The cold junctions of the thermopile are coupled thermally to a first channel comprising a first substance while the hot junctions...
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7129557 |
Autonomic thermal monitor and controller for thin film devices
A thermal monitor diode is provided that comprises a silicon thin film on an insulator mounted on a silicon substrate. An opening extends through the silicon thin film and through the insulator and...
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7122859 |
Semiconductor device with switching element and corresponding driving circuit formed on a common semiconductor substrate, and liquid emitting apparatus that includes the semiconductor device
In a semiconductor device in which a switching element for allowing a current to flow to a load and a circuit for driving the switching element are formed on a common substrate, the switching...
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7109408 |
Solid state energy converter
A solid-state energy converter with a semiconductor or semiconductor-metal implementation is provided for conversion of thermal energy to electric energy, or electric energy to refrigeration. In...
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7098393 |
Thermoelectric device with multiple, nanometer scale, elements
A thermoelectric device formed of nanowires on the nm scale. The nanowires are preferably of a size that causes quantum confinement effects within the wires. The wires are connected together into a...
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7089146 |
Apparatus and method for sub-ranging conversion for temperature sensing
A circuit for temperature sensing receives a differential voltage that corresponds to the voltage across a forward-biased PN junction. The circuit for temperature sensing provides a first current...
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7087451 |
Microfabricated hot wire vacuum sensor
A microfabricated vacuum sensor may be formed using semiconductor integrated circuit processes. The sensor may be formed inside an enclosure with a microfabricated component. The sensor may then be...
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7084495 |
Electroosmotic pumps using porous frits for cooling integrated circuit stacks
A stack of heat generating integrated circuit chips may be provided with intervening cooling integrated circuit chips. The cooling integrated circuit chips may include microchannels for the flow of...
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7067733 |
Thermoelectric material having crystal grains well oriented in certain direction and process for producing the same
Thermoelectric material is produced through a process sequence including a liquid quenching, a primary solidification such as a hot pressing or extrusion and an upset forging; although the C-planes...
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7064414 |
Heater for annealing trapped charge in a semiconductor device
A structure and associated method for annealing a trapped charge from a semiconductor device. The semiconductor structure comprises a substrate and a first heating element. The substrate comprises...
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7057240 |
Semiconductor circuit, especially for ignition purposes, and the use of the same
A semiconductor circuit configuration is described, in particular for ignition applications, having a semiconductor power switching device which has a first main terminal, a second main terminal...
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